Problem getting Daily Quote Template to work on Mac

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#1

Things I have tried

I have a mix of Macs and Windows computers that I use Obsidian for. I should also mention that I have only been using Obsidian for about a month.
I have a template for my daily notes that creates some links and gets the daily quote.
Template looks like this:

<% tp.file.creation_date(“dddd Do MMMM YYYY”) %>

[[<% tp.date.now(“YYYY-MM-DD”, -1) %>|Previous Day]] <== [[~Daily Notes 2022| Daily Notes]] | [[~ My Homepage| Home]]==> [[<% tp.date.now(“YYYY-MM-DD”, 1) %>|Next Day]] >> #dailynote #personal

<% tp.web.daily_quote() %>

I am using Templater to retrieve the various date values (this is the only way I have been able to figure out how to do what I want to do.)

When I try to run the Templater template on a Windows PC, it works fine. When I try to run it on a Mac, I get the following error: “Template parsing error, aborting. Check console for more information”

Would appreciate any assistance anyone can provide.

Thanks.

What I’m trying to do

#2

What does the console say as the error message?

To check for errors, first open the developer tools by pressing Ctrl-Shift-I on Windows/Linux or Cmd-Opt-I on macOS, and then go to the “Console” tab. If you want to save the error to a log file, you can right click on the error and choose “Save as…”.

The API used to provide the quotes is currently offline for me, I would guess that that is the problem.

#3

I think I did this right :slight_smile:

Templater Error: Template parsing error, aborting.
Failed to fetch
log_error @ plugin:templater-obsidian:82
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:103
rejected @ plugin:templater-obsidian:57
Promise.then (async)
step @ plugin:templater-obsidian:62
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:63
__async @ plugin:templater-obsidian:47
errorWrapper @ plugin:templater-obsidian:98
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3766
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:63
__async @ plugin:templater-obsidian:47
append_template_to_active_file @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3759
onChooseItem @ plugin:templater-obsidian:2361
e.onChooseSuggestion @ app.js:1
e.selectSuggestion @ app.js:1
t.useSelectedItem @ app.js:1
t.onSuggestionClick @ app.js:1
s @ enhance.js:1

This was the last entry in the console.
The one before that is:

GET https://api.quotable.io/random net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:2693
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:63
__async @ plugin:templater-obsidian:47
getRequest @ plugin:templater-obsidian:2692
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:2702
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:63
__async @ plugin:templater-obsidian:47
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:2701
eval @ VM202:16
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3612
render @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3610
renderAsync @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3626
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3635
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:63
__async @ plugin:templater-obsidian:47
parse_commands @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3634
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3692
fulfilled @ plugin:templater-obsidian:50
Promise.then (async)
step @ plugin:templater-obsidian:62
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:63
__async @ plugin:templater-obsidian:47
parse_template @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3689
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3685
fulfilled @ plugin:templater-obsidian:50
Promise.then (async)
step @ plugin:templater-obsidian:62
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:63
__async @ plugin:templater-obsidian:47
read_and_parse_template @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3683
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3767
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:63
__async @ plugin:templater-obsidian:47
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3766
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:100
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:63
__async @ plugin:templater-obsidian:47
errorWrapper @ plugin:templater-obsidian:98
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3766
eval @ plugin:templater-obsidian:63
__async @ plugin:templater-obsidian:47
append_template_to_active_file @ plugin:templater-obsidian:3759
onChooseItem @ plugin:templater-obsidian:2361
e.onChooseSuggestion @ app.js:1
e.selectSuggestion @ app.js:1
t.useSelectedItem @ app.js:1
t.onSuggestionClick @ app.js:1
s @ enhance.js:1

So if I am reading the GET command properly, it is failing on api.quotable.io/random. What has me puzzled is the fact that it works on Windows, but not on Mac, on the same network.

#4

It’s offline for a few hours now, I am guessing this is from previous tries/using a cached response.

#5

@joethei Thanks for your help. I’ll try it again tomorrow and see if it resolved itself.